How to list vm's and their respective hosts within a resource pool

[billguy]

Looked through the perl toolkit programming guide but nothing clicked yet.

I guess a "VI PHP toolkit" is out of the question so I'm forced to learn Perl (which probably isn't a bad idea anyway, even if it is second best next to PHP). (lighten up, just instigating).

Now that some of you are shaking in anger, I'll ask my question:

How can I get a list of VM's and the hosts they are running on within a resource pool using the perl toolkit?

(vidiscovery.pl gets me close but not exactly what I need).

[StefanPahrmann · Accepted solution]

Hi,

following will do (put the right values in the first 4 lines):

my $filter=<ressourcegroup name>;
my $service_url="https://localhost/sdk";
my $username="";
my $password="";

use VMware::VIM2Runtime;
use VMware::VILib;

Vim::login(service_url => $service_url, user_name => $username, password => $password);
my $ressource_group = Vim::find_entity_view(view_type => 'ResourcePool', 
                                        filter => {'name' => $filter } );

my $xvm_views = Vim::find_entity_views(view_type => "VirtualMachine",
                                     begin_entity => $ressource_group );
foreach(@$xvm_views){
     $host=Vim::get_view(mo_ref => ($_->runtime->host) );
     print "VM: ".$_->name;
     print " Host:".$host->name."\n";
}

Vim::logout();

Regards

Stefan

Message was edited by: StefanPahrmann (forgot the 'use'-statements)

[billguy]

Perfect. Thanks Stefan.

FWIW, Learning Perl, has been a big help.

[StefanPahrmann]

You're welcome, glad i could help

Btw I would appreciate if you marked my answer as a correct answer.

Regards

Stefan